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Archive for March, 2007

28 Mar

The ‘Everything Is OK’ Alarm

[Photo: headexplodie]
Via the Lippard Blog, I saw this idea to work around the gag order placed on recipients of a National Security Letter. It is illegal to tell anyone you’ve received such a letter (because it would tip off your associates, customers and family that one or more of them might be under investigation) [...]

22 Mar

Death penalty for parking violations

[Photo: Robert Brook]
The city council in Brooksville, Florida (land of hanging chads) just floated a proposal that would allow the city to take your home or your car if you fail to pay a parking ticket. They may or may not tell you that you have a ticket in the first place and [...]

22 Mar

Woot!

Looks as if there’s a Woot!-off a-foot a-right-a-bout-now.
Woot! is sorta like QVC or Home Shopping Network for the Internet generation. Instead of houses full of chotchkies, we’ll have houses full of… e-chotchkies.
Must resist the big, yellow button.
Woot!

21 Mar

Math is hard

[Photo: cpchannel]
This story is already a few weeks old but a friend just now brought it to my attention. I know this story is true because I saw it on the Internets.
Seems a car dealer attempted to use the “buy one, get one free” promotional gimmick at his Porsche dealership.
Local man Bruce Stepper took out [...]

18 Mar

The question no one is asking

[photo: moria]
I was only somewhat aware until recently of the spate of conspiracy theories regarding the 9/11 attacks — namely that somehow our own government staged the attacks in order to place us on a war footing. I’m not going to justify this nonsense with a link; I’m sure Google can get you close to [...]

05 Mar

Setting up camp

We moved into our new digs over the weekend. Now begins the process of bringing order out of chaos until, of course, we decide to introduce some of our own chaos later on. We like to be spontaneous in very specific and measured ways. That’s how we roll.
Here’s what we see from our bedroom window [...]

01 Mar

Creepy

[photo: cerealfan]
I don’t have much to add here other than to point and say, “wow.” Glenn Beck says to US Weekly editor Dana Dina Sansing, “Dina, I’ve got some time and a camera. Why don’t you stop by?”
What is it with shoutshow hosts and creepy behavior? At least he didn’t make any mention of a [...]

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